Posted 07 September 2011

‘Heads-Up’ Game Store And PlayStation Plus Update: 7th September 2011

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Hi everyone – a long intro from me today, lots of housekeeping and new things to tell you about, but let’s kick off with the third title in the PLAY promotion – Bloodrayne: Betrayal launches today.

The original video game femme fatale, Rayne, has returned to battle and feed in a brand new hack ‘n slash adventure. Slay ghastly enemies as Rayne, the sexy dhampir with superhuman strength, speed, and agility, recruited by the vampire hunting Brimstone Society for one last mission. The target is a lavish, yet sinister ball in a secluded castle with plenty of dark and gruesome surprises. With the help of a mysterious friend, and members of Brimstone, Rayne must infiltrate the manor, take out the fiendish horde, and stop an evil master plot once and for all.

Bloodrayne: Betrayal is available this week in all locales except for New Zealand (Majesco are finalising the OFLC rating for this title in NZ and we will be able to bring it to you next week).

Also, Italian consumers can this week begin to take part in the PLAY promotion – Street Fighter III: Third Strike, The Baconing and Bloodrayne: Betrayal are all launching on the Italian Store and you can now purchase any of these titles and if you purchase all four, become eligible to receive your reward copy of PAYDAY: The Heist.

SNK bring us a whole host of new minis this week as well – with more on the way. These classic titles from the arcade era are now available for you to enjoy either on PS3 or PSP – Guerilla Wars is free for Plus and all the other titles (and those still on the way) will be available at 20% off for our subscribers too.

Also this week we have plenty of other choice morsels for you, including the slightly delayed God of War Collection: Volume II demo – Kratos’ PSP adventures have been upscaled and brought to life on PS3 for the first time. The eu.playstation.com team has put together a demo guide for you to check out, so make sure to head on over there to get the inside track.

You’ve probably already seen Andy’s post about the second round of PSP titles for the big PSP Power Sale, including the launch offer for Persona 3: Portable. Disney were kind enough to include Lego Pirates of the Caribbean in the sale too, to commemorate the launch of Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides on the Video Store on 12th September.

Another quick note regarding Automatic Update – the SCEI team are aware of the issues that you guys have been having since the firmware update and there will be an interim update to fix the issue coming later in September – please keep a look out for this and when I can update you with an exact date we’ll let you know.

That’s all from me for now – check out the content lists for Plus and the Store Update below and both Andy and myself will be around for comments both today and tomorrow – unfortunately my workload has yet to let up and keeping you guys informed is going to take the both of us!

See you all later on, have a great week.

PlayStation Store (via PS3, PSP and Media Go)

PlayStation Plus Content

Plants vs Zombies – 100% off

Altered Beast – 100% off

Ratchet and Clank: ‘All 4 One’ Open Beta (Exclusive)

Jellypop (minis) – 100% off

Kaleidoscope (minis) – 100% off

Resident Evil: Director’s Cut – 100% off

(excludes Germany and New Zealand)

Street Fighter Alpha 2 (Psone) – 100% off

(Germany and New Zealand only)

Bloodrayne: Betrayal – 20% off

Explodemon! – 50% off

Guerilla War SNK mini – 100% off

20% off all SNK minis:

Athena – 20% off

HAL 21 – 20% off

Marvin’s Maze – 20% off

Ozma Wars – 20% off

Sasuke Vs. Commander – 20% off

Vanguard – 20% off

The Impossible Game (minis) – 25% off

100% off all Resident Evil: Operation Racoon City Avatars

Beltway Avatar

Bertha Avatar

Four Eyes Avatar

Licker Avatar

Lupo Avatar

Spectre Avatar

Tyrant Avatar

Vector Avatar

Zombie Avatar

Resident Evil: Operation Racoon City Dynamic Theme (Exclusive)

Assassin’s Creed: Revelations Dynamic Theme (Exclusive)

Watch out for additional offers in PlayStation Plus throughout September, including more discounts on catalogue content, more new Plus exclusive avatars, and launch day discounts on Capcom’s ‘Resident Evil 4’, ‘Resident Evil: Code Veronica’ and Ubisoft’s ‘From Dust’

Special Offer Selection

For all this information go and visit Andy Stewart’s new Special Offers Update.

Trial & Unlock (PS3)

Bloodrayne: Betrayal (£9.99/€12.99)

– The Trial and Unlock have been bundled together for Germany– This product is free for those who have pre-ordered as part of PLAYRating: PEGI 16Availability: Not available in New Zealand

Red Johnson’s Chronicles (£7.99/€9.99)

Rating: PEGI 16Availability: All Locals

SkyDrift (£11.99/€14.99)

Rating: PEGI 7Availability: All Locals

Full Games (PSP)

Persona 3 Portable (£23.99/€29.99 during the PSP Power Sale until the 21st September then will change to £27.99/€34.99)

Rating: PEGI 3Availability: All locales

minis (PS3 and PSP)

The Impossible Game (£1.74/€1.99)

Rating: PEGI 3Availability: All locales

Athena (£1.99/€2.49)

Rating: PEGI 12Availability: Not available in Australia or New Zealand

Guerilla War (£1.99/€2.49)

Rating: PEGI 12Availability: All locales

Hal 21 (£1.99/€2.49)

Rating: PEGI 12Availability: All locales

Marvin’s Maze (£1.99/€2.49)

Rating: PEGI 3Availability: Not available in Australia or New Zealand

Ozma Wars (£1.99/€2.49)

Rating: PEGI 3Availability: Not available in Australia or New Zealand

Sasuke vs Commander (£1.99/€2.49)

Rating: PEGI 3Availability: Not available in Australia or New Zealand

Vanguard (£1.99/€2.49)

Rating: PEGI 3Availability: Not available in Australia or New Zealand

PSone (PS3/PSP)

Tomb Raider II Starring Lara Croft (£4.79/€5.99)

Rating: PEGI 12Availability: All Locales

Demos (PS3)

God of War Collection: Volume II Demo

Rating: PEGI 18Availability: Not available in Germany

Assassin’s Creed Revelations Multiplayer BETA

Rating: PEGI 18Availability: Not available in Germany Available to play until 11th September

Are we ever going to get DEMAND FIVE player on the PS3 any time soon, there were rumours of it coming late last year, can you let us know if anything is happening regarding this, if not at least we can rule it out.

Also are PS2 classics ever coming as I am sick of waiting, are they in development or not? Again, please let us know, as we can rule them out, if not.

Ross, can you make sure to talk in advance with NISA about making sure EU Disgaea 4 DLC to be up-to-schedule with the DLC US has recieved at the time.On same week or week after EU release preferbly.I’d be forever grateful if you could make this happen!

Also if you can talk them into giving us the Fallen Angel Flonne DLC you’ll totally be a Hero of the Galaxy!

No, nothing new from THQ this week, but I will definitely ask about the avatars!

Filesizes, we are working on bringing that back when things calm down a bit – it adds a pretty time intensive step to the process whoch we can’t automate, but you’re right, it’s worth doing. In the meantime feel free to ask for file sizes, we’re happy to oblige.

Will we be receiving the other Resident Evil PS1 classics, and the 50% off of Resident Evil 4 and Code Veronica like the US are? Apart from that, it’s a great update but it’s a shame that we usually end up missing out on a lot of content they get =/

Very much appreciate the R&C Beta and SFAlpha 2 for free. Also Guerilla War is great retro fun. Thanks for putting those SNK Arcade minis up. Do you know when Shock Troopers Neo Geo Station will make it to our store or should I just go get it from the US one? It’s my fave Neo Geo game and 2 player shooter.

wow a good update for once but please offer the ppl who dont want those to be honest pants minis maybe we could pick a game or dlc to the same value dont see why giving us a choice of content is so hard for u guys to do then plus will be most excellent

still no bf3 caspian trailer in 1080p for us to drool over come on get get get it on the store already

I see that americans are getting the good deals out of owning a ps3 and for also being a plus subscriber. What about us europeans from Iurp? Europe is playstation land whereas US is xbox land and we always get the short stick. Ranging from higher prices on games, fewer titles on PSN than US and worse offers. When is this going to change and when is playstation Europe going to treat better the european customer or you don’t care because we’ll always buy your products? I am actually pretty curious why is US getting the better goods than Europe when here customers buy more playstation products and games..?

Who do I have to sleep with to get Ubisoft to update Beyond Good & Evil with “proper” controls? I.e. I want to invert the vertical controls but NOT the horizontal. Inverting controls inverts both so my horizontal controls are the wrong way round when my verticals are correct, and vice versa! I can’t play the game like this, I feel like I wasted my monies!

Might have to give Blood Rayne a try.Hey Ross, quick Q, can you tell me if Sony is trying to make sure we get FEZ on the PSN. It was slated for a early 2011 release on the Xbox, but has been delayed till late 2011 with an intrest to release on multiple platforms including PSN. Its developed by Polytron and was in the Pax10 last week just in case your wondering what i’m going on about. But yeah the game looks insane and hey Sony did just invest 20mill in the PSN maybe use some of that to grease a few palms and get that game on PSN!